TU 539a - Shell Creek (unnamed Post-Caloosahatchee) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Charlotte County, Florida (27.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 81.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed post-Caloosahatchee Fm units, which presumably regionally overlies the Caloosahatchee Formation. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: Florida Museum of Natural History.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92514: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxta described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) dilectus1, Aspella senex n. sp.2, Calotrophon ostrearum3
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) dilectus1 Adams 1854 murex snail
Aspella senex n. sp.2 Dall 1903 murex snail
Calotrophon ostrearum3 Conrad 1846 murex snail
1Vokes 1965; 2Vokes 1975; 3Vokes 1976